Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw AT least 45 children from across the country are set to undergo free cleft lip and palate surgeries at the Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare. The surgeries are a partnership between the Health ministry, Global Cleft and Graniofacial Foundation, and surgeries will start today until the end of the week.Speaking to Daily…
By Yvonne Ncube A 27-YEAR-OLD woman employed as a maid at Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb has appeared in court for stealing from an employer who was out of the country before suddenly quitting her job. Maria Mwangambako did not plead to the charges before Tredgold Magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa. She was remanded in custody to February…
By Brandon Josphat GOVERNMENT has deregistered 291 Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) for not complying with the prescribed expectations of their operations. In a statement yesterday, the registrar of PVOs, Tawanda Zimhunga said the deregistration is with immediate effect. “The Registrar of Private Voluntary Organisations in conjunction with the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) board has noted…
STUDENTS at the University of Zimbabwe have been granted temporary relief after the High Court yesterday granted an interim order that ordered that the institution should not withhold the results of learners who had failed to pay fees. The order also suspends the increase in tuition fees pending the ruling of another application by the…
PARLIAMENT has demanded answers from the government why it continued turning a blind-eye to the environmental damage at the Boterekwa escarpment in Shurugwi, the Midlands province caused by illegal gold miners. The parliamentary portfolio committees on Environment and Mines recently visited the escarpment on a fact-finding mission, and were shocked after they were informed by…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE World Health organisation (WHO) says it is partnering with government and other mental health stakeholders in setting up community mental healthcare centres around the country to decongest the load at major referral hospitals. This comes as mental healthcare cases continue to increase in the country with Parirenyatwa hospital recording at least…
TWENTY-FIVE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, who were arrested last week, will spend the weekend in remand prison after a Harare magistrate’s court adjourned the cross-examination of the investigating officer to Monday. The 25 members have clocked a week in State custody, having been in detention since their arrest last Saturday at the house…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says despite Tropical Storm Cheneso making a landfall in Madagascar on Wednesday, Zimbabwe is unlikely to be affected by the rainstorm. Most parts of Zimbabwe received heavy rains on Thursday evening, with Beatrice recording 40mm, Chinhoyi, 38mm, Hwange, Tsholotsho and Centenary, 25mm each. The MSD said the…
GOVERNMENT says it is targeting an increase in the country’s irrigated land from 150 000 hectares to 400 000 hectares this year, as Zimbabwe works on improving its food security under the Accelerated Irrigation Rehabilitation and Development Programme. Speaking at an irrigation working group in Harare yesterday, Agriculture deputy minister Vangelis Haritatos said irrigation rehabilitation…
Nyasha Kunyiswa THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) on Wednesday said it was pushing local haulage companies to invest more in cutting-edge global technologies to reduce severe environmental damage from hazardous substance spills. This follows the recent case of fuel spillage in Norton caused by a tanker that overturned. Speaking to journalists during an emergency response…
